CLHA Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century

It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, the growing density of legal institutions and their interaction with political and social action, and the development of the modern criminal justice system. We also see how law intertwines with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular culture, and how it intersects with the worlds of the American military and of international relations.

More on the project as a whole and information about Volume 1 is here.There is a preview chapter for Volume 1, but not for Volume 2.

Contents, Volume 21. Law and the American state, from the Revolution to the Civil War: institutional growth and structural change Mark R. Wilson

1 comment:

I'm intrigued by the organization. What do you think about the organization around the long nineteenth century? American legal history is usually broken around the Civil War. Do you think that traditional break obscures continuities that we should be focusing on? I expect the volume addresses this. I wonder if this will cause a major rethinking of legal history?